This book guides you through upgrades of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
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Preface #
1 Available documentation #
- Online documentation
Our documentation is available online at https://documentation.suse.com. Browse or download the documentation in various formats.
Note: Latest updatesThe latest updates are usually available in the English-language version of this documentation.
- SUSE Knowledgebase
If you have run into an issue, also check out the Technical Information Documents (TIDs) that are available online at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/. Search the SUSE Knowledgebase for known solutions driven by customer need.
- Release notes
For release notes, see https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/.
- In your system
For offline use, the release notes are also available under
/usr/share/doc/release-notes
on your system. The documentation for individual packages is available at/usr/share/doc/packages
.Many commands are also described in their manual pages. To view them, run
man
, followed by a specific command name. If theman
command is not installed on your system, install it withsudo zypper install man
.
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PATH
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,--help
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Commands that must be run with
root
privileges. You can also prefix these commands with thesudo
command to run them as a non-privileged user:#
command
>
sudo
command
Commands that can be run by non-privileged users:
>
command
Commands can be split into two or multiple lines by a backslash character (
\
) at the end of a line. The backslash informs the shell that the command invocation will continue after the line's end:>
echo
a b \ c dA code block that shows both the command (preceded by a prompt) and the respective output returned by the shell:
>
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1 Introduction #
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro allows upgrading from an existing system to the new version. No new installation is needed. Existing data, such as home and data directories and system configuration, is kept intact.
Upgrades between two releases of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro are supported by SUSE. Whether it is better to upgrade or perform a fresh installation depends on your specific scenario. While upgrades involve less work, fresh installations ensure you benefit from all the new features of a release such as disk layout changes, specific filesystem features, and other improvements. To get the most out of your system, SUSE therefore recommends fresh installations in most scenarios.
In both cases—upgrade as well as a fresh installation—customers need to check if system settings and default values still fit their requirements.
1.1 SLE Micro lifecycle #
SLE Micro is released twice a year.
SLE Micro comes with 4 years of general support. For detailed information about the SLE Micro lifecycle, refer to https://www.suse.com/lifecycle.
The general support includes the following features:
Technical Services
Access to patches, fixes, documentation and the SUSE Knowledge base
Support for existing stacks and workloads
Support for new deployments
Enhancement requests
Hardware enablement and optimization
Driver updates via SUSE SolidDriver Program
Backport of fixes from recent minor versions
Security updates
Defect resolution
2 Preparing the upgrade #
Before you start the upgrade procedure of SLE Micro, you need to perform checks as described in this chapter.
2.1 Identifying the SLE Micro version #
If you need to identify the version of an
SLE Micro
installation, check the content of the file
/etc/os-release
.
A machine readable XML output is available with zypper
:
#
zypper --no-remote --no-refresh --xmlout --non-interactive products -i
<?xml version='1.0'?> <stream> <product-list> <product name="SUSE-MicroOS" version="5.1" release="1" epoch="0" arch="x86_64" vendor="SUSE" summary="SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1" repo="@System" productline="SUSE-MicroOS" registerrelease="" shortname="SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro" flavor="" isbase="true" installed="true"><endoflife time_t="0" text="0"/><registerflavor/><description>SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1</description></product> </product-list> </stream>
2.2 Read the release notes #
Find a list of all changes, new features, and known issues in the
release notes.
You can also find the release notes on the installation media in the
docu
directory.
The release notes usually only contain the changes between two subsequent releases.
Check the release notes to see whether:
your hardware needs special considerations;
any used software packages have changed significantly;
special precautions are necessary for your installation.
2.3 Registering and deregistering machines #
On registration, the system receives repositories from the SUSE Customer Center (see
https://scc.suse.com/) or a local registration proxy like SMT. The
repository names map to specific URIs in the customer center. To list all
available repositories on your system, use zypper
as
follows:
#
zypper
repos -u
This gives you a list of all available repositories on your system. Each
repository is listed by its alias, name and whether it is enabled and will
be refreshed. The option -u
also gives you the URI from
where it originated.
To register your machine, run the transactional-update
as
follows:
#
transactional-update
register -r REGCODE
To deregister your machine, you can use the
transactional-update
as follows:
#
transactional-update
register -d
To check your locally installed products and their status, use the following command:
#
SUSEConnect
-s
2.4 Make sure the current system is up-to-date #
Upgrading the system is only supported from the most recent patch level. Make sure the latest system updates are installed by running:
#
transactional-update patch
2.5 Listing installed packages and repositories #
You can save a list of installed packages, for example when doing a fresh install of a new major SLE release or reverting to the old version.
Be aware that not all installed packages or used repositories are available in newer releases of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Some may have been renamed and others replaced. It is also possible that some packages are still available for legacy purposes while another package is used by default. Therefore some manual editing of the files might be necessary. This can be done with any text editor.
Create a file named
repositories.bak.repo
containing a list of all used repositories:#
zypper
lr -e repositories.bakAlso create a file named
installed-software.bak
containing a list of all installed packages:#
rpm
-qa --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' > installed-software.bakBack up both files. The repositories and installed packages can be restored with the following commands:
#
zypper
ar repositories.bak.repo#
transactional-update pkg install
$(cat installed-software.bak)Note: Number of packages increases with an update to a new releaseA system upgraded to a new (minor or major) version may contain more packages than the initial system. It could also contain more packages than a fresh installation of the new SLE Micro with the same pattern selection. Reasons for this are:
Packages were split to allow a more fine-grained package selection.
When a package has been split, all new packages are installed in the upgrade case to retain the same functionality as with the previous version. However, the new default for a fresh installation of SLE Micro new versions may be to not install all packages.
Legacy packages from the initial SLE Micro may be kept for compatibility reasons.
Package dependencies and the scope of patterns may have changed.
2.6 Make a backup #
Before upgrading, back up your data by copying the existing configuration
files to a separate medium (such as tape device, removable hard disk, etc.).
This primarily applies to files stored in /etc
and some
directories and files in /var
and
/opt
. You may also want to write the user data in
/home
(the HOME
directories) to a backup
medium.
Back up all data as root
. Only root
has sufficient permissions
for all local files.
2.7 Disk space #
Software tends to grow from version to version. Therefore, take a look at the available partition space before updating. If you suspect you are running short of disk space, back up your data before increasing the available space by resizing partitions, for example. There is no general rule regarding how much space each partition should have. Space requirements depend on your particular partitioning profile and the software selected.
2.7.1 Checking disk space on Btrfs root file systems #
On a Btrfs file system, the output of df
can be
misleading, because in addition to the space the raw data allocates, a
Btrfs file system also allocates and uses space for metadata.
Consequently a Btrfs file system may report being out of space even though it seems that plenty of space is still available. In that case, all space allocated for the metadata is used up.
Make sure there is enough free space as the root file system uses Btrfs and
might consume significant amount of space. Check the available space on all
mounted partitions. In the worst case, an upgrade needs as much disk space
as the current root file system (without /.snapshot
)
for a new snapshot.
The following recommendations have been proven:
For all file systems, including Btrfs, you need enough free disk space to download and install big RPMs. The space of old RPMs is only freed after new RPMs are installed.
For Btrfs with snapshots, you need as a minimum as much free space as your current installation takes. We recommend having twice as much free space as the current installation.
If you do not have enough free space, you can try to delete old snapshots with
snapper
:#
snapper
list#
snapper
delete NUMBERHowever, this may not help in all cases. Before migration, most snapshots occupy only little space.
2.8 Shut down virtual machine guests #
If your machine serves as a VM Host Server for KVM, make sure to properly shut down all running VM Guests prior to the update. Otherwise you may not be able to access the guests after the update.
3 Upgrading the system #
SUSE offers a command-line tool to upgrade a running system to a new version. The tool provides support for a “rollback” to an older release. This chapter explains how to upgrade your system step by step.
SUSE releases a new version of SLE Micro at regular intervals. To make it easy for customers to migrate to a new minor version and minimize downtime, SUSE supports migrating online while the system is running.
SLE Micro uses transactional updates to upgrade from one version to the next. This has the following advantages:
Canceling is possible until you reboot your system.
Simple recovery if there is an error.
Possible “rollback” via system tools—no backup or restore needed.
Use of all active repositories.
3.1 Upgrading to a new release #
When you perform an upgrade from previous releases, the default network
framework remains the same. Since SLE Micro 5.3, the default networking
service is NetworkManager. A new installation of SLE Micro is recommended, but if needed, you can switch from wicked
to NetworkManager as
described in Book “Administration Guide”, Chapter 6 “NetworkManager and wicked
”, Section 6.1 “Switching from wicked
to NetworkManager”, Switching from wicked
to NetworkManager. However, automated
migration from wicked
to NetworkManager or the conversion of the
wicked
configuration is not supported. SUSE also
cannot guarantee full feature parity when switching to NetworkManager.
If your system is registered with the SUSE Customer Center, make sure to have an Internet connection during the following procedure:
The upgrade procedure is performed by calling the
transactional-update
:transactional-update migration
A new snapshot is created.
Current repositories are refreshed.
A list of available migration targets is displayed. Enter a number.
A list of packages to be installed or updated is displayed. Press
y
to continue with the upgrade procedure.To complete the upgrade, reboot your system and boot into the target version.
If your system is not registered, proceed as follows:
Change the URL of the update repositories to point to the 5.5.
Run the following command:
#
transactional-update dup
3.1.1 Extensions during upgrade #
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching and SUSE Package Hub might get updated during the upgrade procedure. If you upgrade from an odd release number to the next even one, the extensions retain the same version. For example, when upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4, the extension versions do not change. Otherwise, the extension versions change.
3.2 Reverting the migration process #
If a new release does not work for you, SLE Micro supports reverting the
system to the state before the migration process was started by using the
transactional-update rollback
command.
The detailed procedure for a system rollback is described in Book “Administration Guide”, Chapter 3 “Administration using transactional updates”, Section 3.3 “System rollback”.
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